A Couple of questions RE The RGE

jasonclarke · Post by **jasonclarke** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:12 pm

Hi all,

Can anyone help with this,

I have restarted my Midland Mainline route using the 90m DEM data and UKFS track, thanks to Lucazone's great tutorial I have imported the data but I an confused...

I am planing to start at Nottingham Midland Station and have got the location from Streetmap as N52 56 50 W1 05 50 when I locate this (as close as I can in the RGE, it seems to be to close to the coast, is this likley to be just me or am I doing somthing wrong, also it does not appear near any of the red line on the map which I assumed were railway lines.
Also exactlyhow would N52 56 50 W1 05 50 appear at the bottome of the RGE screen (as I said , it could be me benig more stupid than usual).

Thanks in advance for any helps.

Regards

Jason

Cobos · Post by **Cobos** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:36 pm

Not sure on most of your queries. I can say that railway lines are black.

Kerr

jasonclarke · Post by **jasonclarke** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:59 pm

Thanks for the reply,

Sorry,the red lines I refer to are in the RGE map itself,

Just goes to show how badly I put my questions on the forums.!

sp762 · Post by **sp762** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 9:03 pm

I think that the RGE shows locations in some sort of metric format - this is all covered in another topic (from memory) try the search function. But briefly you need to convert the lat/long into fractions of an easting and northing. So your Northing would be 52.86 (or somthing like that) and your westing -1.02 (not real numbers)

If I'm wrong, please someone let me know!

jasonclarke · Post by **jasonclarke** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 10:09 pm

Thanks Mike,

I have converted my Long Lat in the way you said and low and behold Nottingham is in the right place again.

Thanks Very much to both of you for your help.

Right then back to the RE

Cheers

Jason

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 1:11 am

Jason, you simply ignore the outline of the Uk on the REG globe, it is just a graphic for reference to zoom in to more or less the right part of the planet! The red railway lines are much more nearer to accurate, as you will check if you mouse over them and x-ref the lat/long to your map data.

I was looking at the N coast of Cornwall in RGE the other day and according the the REG globe 'map' my lat/long for Portreath gave me somewhere in the Channel off Lizard Point!

jasonclarke · Post by **jasonclarke** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:03 am

Thanks Martin,

So basically I get the correct coordinates and use them.

Easy when you know what you are doing (so they tell me).

Jason

jasonclarke · Post by **jasonclarke** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:21 am

OK Guys, now I am really confused

I used STREETMAP again to get the cordinates which puts nottingham at
52.947132, -1..147125

and Derby at 52.917150, -1459614 which appear in the RGE to be almost one above the other (ie Derby is South Of nottingham not West as is the reality )so I assume that I have missed somthing again or am being thick.Help !!!!!!!

Cheers Guys.

Jason

jains15 · Post by **jains15** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 3:29 pm

hi jason.

im at a similar stage of consruction on a route in a similar area to you as you know!

I got nottingham station (the one in use) at
52.947184, -1.145561

and derby
52.916560, -1.462447

trent junction
52.877811, -1.268024

using this data, i set up a route in RGE which resultied in the following picture. Ive put blue crosses in the tiles that contain the above locations.

Next I added the locations to my route in progress and loaded DEM.

As you can see the markers correlate to real world locations of the stations and the junction. sorry about the big pics.

i hope this helps.

jon

TrainSimminNick · Post by **TrainSimminNick** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 4:35 pm

Hey Jason,

I was planning on creating this route but since you are doing so my I please sign up to Beta test it. I know this route extremley well and the 170 would test well upon it.

Nick

jains15 · Post by **jains15** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 9:02 pm

yeah sign me up too!

jon

jasonclarke · Post by **jasonclarke** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 2:05 am

Thanks for the replys guys, very usefull,

You are both more than welcome to test but it will be a fair while yet, I will keep you informed.

Jason